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Properties, sources and uses of the element cobalt.

Properties, sources and uses of the element iron.

Surprisingly, it's not about catching petty thieves. The retail giant Kroger is using infrared cameras in 95 percent of its stores, and if all goes as planned, no one will even notice the cameras are there. A system call...

It can also pick up batteries and basketballs, use a key to open a door, and operate a drill! Robots, while awesome, tend to be clumsy in unpredictable human environments. Machines that use hands as deftly as humans do, ...

This quadrotor uses a nature-inspired, dry adhesive to cling to surfaces for extra-covert spying. This drone could become the proverbial fly on the wall. Thanks to a joint research project between the University of Maryl...

Dwarf lemurs are the only tropical mammals that hibernate, and the fat-tailed dwarf lemur is the oddest of the lot

An hour of crowded freeway or a jaunt through granite, greenery and history? The choice is yours.

Software that rapidly analyses digital devices and builds a list of a suspect's known associates could be a powerful tool for solving crimes

All the latest stories on newscientist.com: our galaxy's central black hole set to blow, crowdsourced creativity, genetic benefits of meditation, and more

Heather Sellers has one of the worst cases of prosopagnosia ever recorded. She can't recognise any face - even her own - so she uses gait to navigate her world

As a young biologist in Africa, Alan Savory helped set aside national park lands. His organization removed indigenous "hunting, drum-beating people" to protect animals. However, burgeoning herds of elephants were soon id...

Samsung's Galaxy smartphones can be controlled by touch, gesture, eye movement--and your mind. Well, not exactly. Not yet. Not even close. Perhaps half in the name of science, half in the name of publicity, Samsung's tea...

Daily relaxation routines can result in beneficial long-term changes to genes involved in blood sugar control and other processes

Scientists this week heard their first pops in an experiment that searches for signs of dark matter in the form of tiny bubbles. Scientists will need further analysis to discern whether dark matter caused any of the COUP...

The dark monster at the centre of the Milky Way has been a gentle giant - but that could change this year as it gets its first meal for a century (full text available to subscribers)

Milky Way miners will have to dig deeper for carbon planets than we realised - there is probably no more than one in every 1000 rocky worlds

Beginning in May, a plane will fly across the United States on sunlight alone. In 2015, it will circumnavigate the world. On the morning of March 21, 1999, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones landed their balloon in the Egy...

At the edges of the visible universe, 45 billion light-years away, sit some of the oldest known galaxies. How they formed and developed is a mystery, but a spectrograph installed on Chile's Very Large Telescope--function...

The US Preventive Services Task Force updates its advice on HIV testing in the wake of AIDS research showing the benefits of early detection and treatment

If your creative spark fails you at the crucial moment, there's a whole online community of humans and AI systems waiting to bring your project to life

The US president says that kids shouldn't just be consumers of the amazing things science generates, but producers as well

More frequent flu warnings should breed vigilance, not complacency. H7N9 flu could evolve to pass readily between people at any moment